The History of the Project

Kubernetes Helm is the merged result of Helm
Classic and the Kubernetes port of GCS Deployment
Manager. The project was jointly started by Google and Deis, though it
is now part of the CNCF. Many companies now contribute regularly to Helm.

Differences from Helm Classic:

Helm now has both a client (helm) and a server (tiller). The
server runs inside of Kubernetes, and manages your resources.

Helm’s chart format has changed for the better:

Dependencies are immutable and stored inside of a chart’s charts/
directory.